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Excellent comedy, great performances

This film is one of the all time classic comedy films that just are not being created anymore. I was born when this film came out and i first watched it when i was 5 since then i have seen it every so weeks and it never gets boring. The cast itself is truly amazing, but the best actor in the film Martin Short is the best character and makes the film funny especially the scene when he is in tucks apartment and he is dancing truly priceless. I do not see why people criticize the special effects, at that period of time in 87' these effects displayed in the body scenes would have been the most advanced in any film of that time. In my opinion when people say there should have been a sequel why?? there is no need this film should stand out as a true classic.check it out if u haven't already 7/10

Great sci-fi comedy

The great thing about Joe Dante in the 1980s
was his knack for instilling humor into the
sci-fi genre. Innerspace is probably one
of the greats in that category, mixing in
some great special effects (for its time)
and some hillarious performances by Martin
Short and Dennis Quaid. But what I
especially enjoyed was the concept, turning
a film that could have been serious and
urgent into a film that was both funloving and
interesting to watch. Sure, the whole idea is
bupkiss and it was an homage to Fantastic
Voyage, but the twist Dante put on it certainly
makes it worth watching over and over.

Joe Dante Classic

This 1987 film is a wonderful combination of sci-fi, comedy, romance and thriller elements. It is briskly paced despite being almost two hours in length, and features superb performances from the leads; Dennis Quaid is excellent as usual, as is Meg Ryan in her best role. Yet the plaudits must go to Martin Short in a truly great performance he has never matched. He just needs the right role. The supporting cast are great as well; the delightful villainy of Vernon Wells who is unrecognisable as usual! Also Robert Picardo camping it up superbly as The Cowboy, one of his most memorable creations, plus the great pairing of Fiona Lewis and Kevin McCarthy, who memorably says to his dog before feeding it: 'Never beg, never beg!' The cinematography and special effects/makeup are all great as well, and Jerry Goldsmith's score is brilliant, perfectly complementing the tone of the film, alternately exciting/sprightly/romantic. Joe Dante binds it all together with magnificent verve, plus Dick Miller makes his trademark appearance! A great, timeless classic. Highly recommended.

Why, o why?

why they waited so long before releasing this title in DVD puzzles me. like HEAT and Matrix, Innerspace is a 'natural' for DVD release, the special effects were clever, and there is no shortage of opportunities (or excuses) for using cutting edge surround sound on the movie's many scenes, especially those inside the host's body.

oh, dennis and meg also fell in love around the time this was being shot. personally, I prefer this over Proof of Life.

Amazingly good dodgy 80's dance music!!!

Oh my god, the 80's Dance music is REALLY bad! Please don't watch this film for your own good!!! Meg Ryan is very fit, but this is the only advantage this apawling movie has to offer. There is no way Dennis Quaid make up for the lack of descent actors, the others are like puppets.

I never laughed so hard in my life!!!

The best part about the movie was when "Jack Putter" was changing his facial features to become the cowboy and when he changed back!! That was hilarious!! I thought I was going to die I laughed so hard my sides hurt!! This was an excellent comedy, and Meg Ryan was great in the film also.

Laughing my head off!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap, this is the funniest movie ever made, and my number #3 favorite movie of all time (second to The Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers, of course). What a heck of a cast! Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, and Meg Ryan are some of my favorite actors/actresses. How can you watch Martin Short get drunk in Tuck's office and not laugh?! Twistin the Night Away! BABEEEE! I am gonna buy the freakin thing someday, but nobody sells it! It must be one of those hard-to-find classics. Anyone who watches Innerspace and doesn't laugh, they don't know what humor is. Ya'll.

Silly & Fun, But Not A Kids' Film

This is an updated "Fantastic Voyage" and interestingly done, I thought. Joe Dante directed a number of fun movies to watch during the `80s and `90s.

It's not the innocent Steven Spielberg "E.T."-like movie I expected because of the language and several sex jokes. In other words, this is not a kids' movie.

Dennis Quaid stars and plays his usual cocky self. (He's mellowed in recent years.) Meg Ryan is her usual cute-but-of-little-substance self and Martin Short is just plain funny - the best guy in the movie.

The film offers a good combination of humor and science-fiction suspense. It's a fun movie.

A fun "Fantastic Voyage" update!

I'm a big fan of this film. BIG fan. It struck a chord with me back in 1987, and I love it to this day.

It's a Joe Dante film, with early performances by Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan.

It's goofier than all get out; here's the synopsis.

Dennis Quaid is a loose cannon test pilot with a bit of an alcohol problem, who gets "demoted" to a secret military program involving miniaturization. He is to be shrunk down, along with a mini-submarine, and injected into a lab rabbit, to test things like the ability to hook up to a host's optic or auditory nerve.
Meg Ryan plays a reporter, romantically involved with Quaid, but for the moment, estranged.
Martin Short plays a hypochondriac supermarket assistant manager.

So, Quaid gets shrunk right before "the bad guys" (led by an over-the-top Kevin McCarthy) invade the laboratory, and in his last act as a living person, the escaping lead investigator injects the microscopic Quaid into Short's left buttock.

Hilarity ensues.

I didn't really care much for the whole "stealing technology" plot thread (there's a very early role by Robert Picardo), but it's there as a scaffold, just to watch Quaid and Short deal with each other. And that's really a joy to watch.

The one scene in the doctor's office, with Quaid finally patched into Short's inner ear, is hysterical. Short gets to mug opposite old friends (and SCTV alums) Joe Flaherty and Andrea Martin...I've seen it a hundred times yet I still laugh every time.

Yes, there are a lot of clunky lines and bits of extreme over-acting. If you have a problem with either Dennis Quaid or Martin Short, it'll be tough for you to like this movie. Overthink this movie, and you're doing yourself a disservice.


On the other hand, if you like either of those two guys, and are in the mood for a fun romp, this is well worth a viewing. You'll love seeing about a dozen character actors, sprinkled in small roles like Short's doctor, the supermarket manager, Ryan's co-workers...you've seen them in a million movies, and they're perfectly cast here. The 80's fashions and music are an unintentional riot in and of themselves.


They DO up the class level when they selected Sam Cooke songs as the key tunes to the film though.


The DVD looks great...the red Mustang just pops right off the screen. Some of the effects reveal their age (in particular the non-inside-the-body ones), but the scenes inside Martin Short STILL look terrific!

Nice sonics with crisp details.

Depending on your child's exposure to the four-letter word describing excrement (it's used about half a dozen times or so...), this movie is appropriate for a large age range. It's really just a simple lark of a film.


And I still find it to be most enjoyable...

A very funny movie !!

A man is shrunk inside another man's body and the man inside the body has to get out.Clever,hilarious mix of humor,science fiction works.Martin Short and Cowboy are just hilarious.Rating:**** (out of five)

Fast paced, and hilarious

Dennis Quaid is injected to hypochondriac Martin Short and hilarious results follow. Short is extremely funny as the comic hero who must escape bad guys with the help of Quaid who is inside him. It is a great comic adventure everyone will like.

A Great Sci-Fi/Comedy From The Creators of Gremlins!

Hey, movie viewers! If you liked Gremlins, you MUST see this great 1987 film! It is about a ex-Lieutenant of the U.S. Marines, Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid, Any Given Sunday), who is the subject of a minaturization experiment, which requires 2 microchips. He gets inside a submersible pod, is minaturized down to a microscopic size, placed in a syringe, and is supposed to be injected into a bunny named BUGS!! However, a bunch of criminals, disguised as phone repairmen, break into the laboratory and steal one of the chips. But, a good friend of Tuck's who works at the lab, Ozzie, takes the syringe, runs off, is chased to a mall, and shot. Fortunately, he lives long enough to run into a nerdy hypochondriac named Jack (Martin Short, Primetime Glick), and injects Tuck into him. Later on, Tuck finds out he is in a man, then establishes contact with Jack by placing an amplifier in his ear, and attaches a camera to his eye to see what Jack sees, and tells him what is going on and that he only has 'til 9:00 a.m. tomorrow to get out of him before his air supply runs out. Tuck tells him to go find his girlfriend (Meg Ryan, Hanging Up), and get help from her to recover the chip and save Tuck. This film is a GREAT sci-fi/comedy, and is from the creators of Gremlins (producer Steven Spielberg and director Joe Dante). It is also based on the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage. Like Gremlins, it is also a VERY good family classic. So, if you liked Gremlins, then you HAVE to see this movie! It's REAL KOOL!

average film

though there are some moments this film is pretty predictable in spots. I just happen to catch it on the other night.there were some laughs here&there.

Slick, Funny, Enjoyable Miniaturisation Comedy Thriller But Could Have Been Better

Lieutenant Tuck Pendleton has signed up for a dangerous mission, a bold miniaturisation experiment. But when the lab is attacked and he is accidentally injected into Jack Putter, a hypochondriac supermarket clerk, he and Jack need to team up fast to recover a vital silicon chip needed to restore him to normal size.Innerspace is a brilliant but flawed film, which has a terrible first two scenes, but then almost instantly picks up into a great loopy sci-fi comedy thriller. Its problem is its script, which has some great central ideas (miniaturisation, espionage) but lumbers them with a boring love story involving that old Lois Lane heroine standby, the plucky reporter. The result is that the two male leads have to try and balance the more insane moments with conventional angst, while McCarthy (as a mad industrialist), Lewis (as a mad scientist), Picardo (as a mad smuggler) and Wells (as a mad killer) all have a whale of a time with a total comic-book approach. I suspect Chip Proser's original screenplay was much more of the latter, but the studio railed the filmmakers back into making a more mainstream film. If so that's a shame, but it's still a great movie, a terrific revision of Fantastic Voyage with excellent visual effects by Dennis Muren and Rob Bottin, as Tuck floats through Jack's bloodstream, clamps onto his optic nerve and fights a pitched battle in his stomach. It also features great sets by James Spencer, terrific costumes by Rosanna Norton (the first shot of McCarthy in his perfect white suit looking over the Golden Gate is sensational), cool stunts and great turns by all of Dante's regular bit players. Also, for bizarre casting, how about this; the key role of Ozzie the good-guy scientist is played by Dante's usual cameraman, John Hora (who didn't shoot this film), and very good he is too. Produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin' company, this is a thoroughly entertaining and very enjoyable gas of a movie which pretty much keeps you smiling throughout. Dante loves his crazy antics and directs with great aplomb, especially during the numerous chases and nervous confrontation scenes. I just get the feeling that he was a little constricted here, and could maybe have turned in an even crazier and better film.

Fascinating, Funny, and Fantastic!!!

A Navy pilot, Tuck Pendelton, (Dennis Quaid) has been chosen for a secret experiment to operate a pod-like craft that is miniturized smaller than a grain of salt to be injected into a laboratory rabbit. However, the experiment goes haywire, and a bad batch of dudes want to take over the Miniturization all together. After stealing a microchip that is required for the process, one of the scientists injects the pod into the hypochondriac Safeway employee, Jack Putter. (Martin Short)Unfortunately, the one chip they've taken is useless without the other, which is inside the pod--which is inside Jack Putter!Now Pendelton, his beautiful ex-girlfriend, Lydia, (Meg Ryan) and Putter, have to work together to get the other chip back, and re-enlarge the pod before Tuck runs out of oxygen.This is one of my absolute favorite movies!I love all of the comedy that fits perfectly with the plot, the stunning special effects of all the close-up views of the human body, and romantic twists that suits the movie as well.I highly recommend this film for science-fiction, comedy, action, and romance movie fans....So this movie will most likely suit anyone!If you haven't seen this, it's a MUST to rent or buy. Very exciting, delighting, and fun!You wont regret watching it! :)

Classic entertainment!

If you were to consider the best movies with the most preposterous, outlandish premises, Innerspace would have to take the cake. The idea is so ridiculous and bizarre that it's amazing it ever got made in the first place, let alone that it was so good! Martin Short inhabits the role of the perfectly named Jack Putter, a bumbling supermarket clerk with some major personal issues. He's awkward and nervous, like real life Woody Allen, and he's been suffering from a recurring daytime nightmare where a scary old woman berates him for ringing up her groceries wrong and then pulls a gun on him. Dennis Quaid is Tuck Pendleton, a cocky pilot/scientist who is preparing for a miniaturization project where he will be shrunk to the size of a grain of sand and injected into a rabbit. Things get complicated when a group of terrorists break into the lab and try to steal the materials needed for the procedure, but they only get their hands on what is needed to restore Tuck to normal size. One scientist barely escapes with Tuck and the little submarine inside a syringe and ultimately he has to either surrender it to the bad guy chasing him (a stoic gentleman played by Vernon Wells, who you might remember as the main bad guy in Command) or inject it into the first subject he can get his hands on. Unluckily for hypochondriac Jack Putter, that happens to be him.Innerspace is a major milestone in my childhood, it's one of a handful of movies that I would watch over and over when I was a kid, along with other 80s classics like Commando, Weird Science, Sword in the Stone and Back to the Future. It's a rare example of all of the different parts of a movie working perfectly together, creating a wonderful bit of entertainment that is Great For The Whole Family. It's impossible not to love it when neurotic Jack Putter begins to be affected by Tuck swimming around his bloodstream, latching scary looking communication devices onto the back of his eyeball and the hooking up to his auditory nerves and literally becoming a voice inside his head. Brilliant! Meg Ryan gives a perfect performance as Tuck's girlfriend/ex-girlfriend, and their relationship might be the most uniquely presented romance ever filmed. Classic! This is a definitely cinematic treasure, it's probably not going to be remembered as one of the best romantic comedies ever, but it is certainly among the most loved.

a nice little comedy

Why INNERSPACE was not the hit it should have been will remain a mystery for years to come. And old concept (FANTASTIC VOYAGE) is given an update with spectacular (for the time, but still good) special effects and an excellent cast. Martin Short is a real delight as a neurotic supermarket clerk who at first thinks he's possessed, only to discover that the only thing in his body is a miniaturized Navy test pilot, Dennis Quaid, who was accidently injected into him instead of a lab rabbit. Meg Ryan is cute as ever, and Robert Picardo co-stars in one of his best roles, The Cowboy. The late screenwriter Jeffrey Boam keeps the story simple but allows for some good suspense and laughs, and director Joe Dante keeps the pacing just right. The battle between Quaid and an enemy inside Short's stomach is the highlight of the film. I remember how much I wanted to be Quaid's Tuck Pendleton (and have his little pod) when I first saw the movie. The ending seems obvious for a sequel, but due to the film's surprising box office failure, it was not to be. Still, this is a really fun movie for the whole family, and I hope a Special Edition DVD is not far away.

Awesome

Innerspace might start out wierd, but as you go along, the better it gets. Martin Short has the best character. And he is VERY funny. I died laughing. It isn't the least bit stupid like some of those movies back then. And Meg Ryan is Meg Ryan. Buy this, you won't regret it.

Fun

This is a very engaging little farce, with terrific physical comedy from Martin Short. Dennis Quaid's talents may be wasted a bit, as he's stuck in a cramped capsule for most of the film, but he gets plenty of wisecracking in. Nothing deep or profound here, just well-crafted silliness.

Funny and interesting

When I saw this movie for the first time I wasn't Meg Ryan's fan yet. I think I watched it in one of this saturday morning tv session, I really liked, specially the cast. This wonderful girl, who I became fan later is really funny and totally different of the kind of characters she would became specialist later. Dennis Quaid is great, he is a very talented actor, but working with the woman he was going to marry is incomparable, there is a great chemistry between them. But the star of the movie is Martin Short, who is hilarious as the schizophrenic Jack. It's certainly the funniest science fiction movie ever made.